Lutheal Piano MULTiFORMAT

Team KRock | October 04 2012 | 9.99 GB

Breathtaking capture of perhaps the rarest piano in existence, with over 9500 individual multisamples that deliver an unsurpassed level realism.

The instrument
The lutheal is probably one of the rarest piano instruments in existence – with only one original instrument being left. Invented by the Belgian George Cloetens, it uses a grand piano as its basis and allows to change the tone of the piano by applying the Lutheal mechanism. Built in 1922, it has been completely restored and resides at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Brussels.

Two famous works by Maurice Ravel – “L’enfant et sortileges” and “Tzigane” – make use of the Lutheal.

Conductors from all over the world inquire regularly to rent the luthéal for concerts in order to play Ravel’s pieces. However, shipping the last remaining one of its kind to around the globe proved to be impossible. As a result, we teamed up with MIM to provide a comprehensive sample set of this rare instrument.

The Clavecin stop produces a sound reminiscent of a harpsichord by adding nails to the strings.

The Harp Tirée stop adds felt dampers to the strings, producing a harmonic sound similar to an all-acoustic version of a Fender Rhodes electric piano, with its warm yet sparkling and lively harmonics.

Both the Clavecin and Harp Tiree stops can be added at the same time to create a combined setup which is referred to as Cimbalom, offering the sound spectrum of a dulcimer.

How the samples were captured
The instrument was sampled chromatically with every register, providing up to 32 velocity layers to musically reproduce the Lutheal. Additionally, samples of the release noises of each key and stop have been recorded and are available with 8 velocity layers per key to contribute to the overall picture of the instrument. Pedal noise samples of each stop (pedal push/release) have been recorded as well.

To start right away, presets are available for all common sample formats including HAlion2, Kontakt2 and higher, as well as EXS24.

Recording
For the critical task of recording the Lutheal, we employed custom-made Wagner U47w tube microphones in conjunction with Crane Song Flamingo preamps and Universal Audio 2192 digital converters. For maximum sound quality, we recorded in 192 khz/24 bits resolution, downsampled to 44.1 kHz/24 bits.

Urban Pop Vocals Vol.1 WAV

AUDIOSTRiKE | 18/08/2015 | 270 MB

‘Urban Pop Vocals Vol 1’ is inspired by the top-charting R&B & Urban Billboard artists of 2015 like Jordan Sparks, Tinashe, Becky G, and many more. You’ll find vocal hooks ready to be dropped straight into your productions, all Royalty-Free. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a session singer when you can have more for less, all in one vocal pack? These vocal hooks are Royalty-Free and are created for music producers to increase their beat & product sales, with radio-ready hooks, bridges and verses. Wet and dry vocals are included.

No Flexx WAV

DiSCOVER | 23 NOVEMBER 2014 | 178 MB

‘No Flexx’ is an exciting new pack. You’ll find five monster Club Trap/Drill style compositions inspired by Hip Hop supergroup. This pack is packed with uncut dopeness for your next placements or personal projects. You can own these same quality samples Royalty-Free! Just load into your favourite DAW and or sampler. All sounds are professionally recorded, edited, mixed and mastered utilising the best gear available, including Avalon, Rupert Neve Designs, Sony C800G Microphone, Apogee Symphony, Summit Audio, Eventide, Bricasti, and Manley outboard technologies.

Hardstyle EDM Production Toolkits

TEAM MAGNETRiXX | 07 May 2014 | 251 MB

WAV/MiDi/MASSiVE/SYLENTH1

Skyrocket your productions with this stomping set of Hardstyle EDM Production Tool Kits. With a tight, clean sound, Hardstyle EDM features momentous Synths, pounding Drums and hyperactive Fx. This booming pack features five Hardstyle EDM Production Kits. Each production Kit contains 24-bit Wav stems, NI Massive presets and Sylenth 1 presets along with the Midi files so you can match the riff and patch with ease. Each license-free kit features the demo track guide, plus everything you hear in the demo tracks. All stems and samples are pumped up and ready for action. The sounds are labeled by key and tempo for total ease of use in any Daw. Hardstyle EDM was produced by French sound designer Floxy, whose passion for electronic music and studio wizardry shine in this full-on production pack. As a seasoned hardcore producer, Floxy has more than 100 vinyl releases to his name. Beyond the studio, his sound designer’s touch has earned the crowds of some of Europe’s biggest venues. Floxy continues to break ground, redefining the genre to create new styles that are totally unique. This pack is the perfect kicker for Hardstyle, Big Room, Hard Dance, Raw Style, Electro, Techno, Complextro, and any kind of banging EDM style.

Nightmares of Drum & Bass WAV

FANTASTiC | Sept 01 2017 | 390 MB

Set in the dystopian future of another world, Nightmares of Drum and Bass is the second in a highly anticipated series of packs by Michael White. Overflowing with gnarly synths, massive high energy beats, builds, fills and tops; accompanied by a series of fear inspiring, low slung choppy bass.

LA xLimit II v1.2.5 WiN

Team V.R | Sept 01 2017 | 4.6 MB

AAX RTAS VST VST3 CE x86 x64

LA xLimit II is an advanced look ahead, wideband linked-stereo limiter including ISP (inter sample peak) detection and oversampling. LA xLimit II is the successor of LA xLimit, our very popular look ahead limiter. It offers more control over transients and adaptive release curves. It also adds a second limiter stage for better performance in ISP detection mode. The goal of the design was to cover a broad range of limiting applications in today’s mixing and mastering situations with strong focus on low aliasing.

Design
LA xLimit II is specifically designed for mastering, digital editing, multimedia, and any application that requires limiting of the digital signal with top notch quality and lowest aliasing. LA xLimit II guarantees ultra fast and overshot free response by using advanced look ahead algorithms.

In order to fulfill today’s TV, broadcast and music production requirements LA xLimit II offers True-Peak limiting (ISP) based on ITU-1770 specification and on top of it up to 8x “real” oversampling. Combined with True-Peak limiting reaches even highest production standards.

LA xLimit II includes an advanced adaptive release control system which reduces massively artifacts caused by fixed release times. In order to increase limiting sensitivity both stereo channels can be freely linked/unlinked.

LA xLimit II is designed to be used as last plugin in the processing chain (brick-wall limiting).

AB_LM v1.4.8 RTAS AAX VST VST3 WiN

Team V.R | Sept 01 2017 | 3 MB

AB_LM is a gain control which enables level matched and sample accurate AB comparison of FX chains. Plugin (FX) or even a complex FX chain to the sound. Most DAWs can easily enable/disable (AB) single plugins or even whole FX chains, but in most case there is an audible loudness difference between both cases. In order to compare the impact of a plugin chain objectively the loudness of the incoming signal should match with the loudness of outgoing signal. Comparing the plugin effect at equal loudness levels avoids the “louder is better” – pitfall.

Mode & Link Channel
Sets the mode of the plugin, either Sender or Receiver and the link channel for the communication. Sender is placed before the plugin(s) which should be AB level matched, Receiver is inserted after.

Latency Compensation
Some plugins add latency to the plugin chain. For a sample-exact AB loudness comparison audio streams need to be synchronized. This can be done automatically (just press PDC button and wait 1-2 seconds) or manually by entering the latency value (in samples).

Pre-FX Loudness
This meter shows the current and maximum loudness of the audio stream just before the plugin(s). Many plugins work best at a certain loudness level (e.g. -18 dBFS)

Post-FX Gain
This meter shows the loudness difference of pre and post-FX signal. The match button lets you set the additional post-FX gain (match mode “manual”) based on current loudness difference. Match mode “Auto” does this automatically.

Match Modes
AB-LM lets you match the loudness either manually, or automatically.
The mode “Gain Stage” works differently: The additional FX drive gain is just removed from the audio stream right after the FX chain for “pure” gain staging purposes.

Snapshot Slots
AB_LM provides 4 snapshot slots to store and recall settings for FX drive and Post-FX gain. So you can test your plugin chain with different gain levels, all loudness matched.

Impress v1.9.9 WiN

Team V.R | Sept 01 2017 | 3.6 MB

AAX VST VST3 RTAS x86 x64

Impress is a wideband stereo compressor including side-chaining, various prefilter options and state-of-the-art over sampling. The goal of the design was to cover a broad range of compression applications in today’s mixing and mastering situations with strong focus on low aliasing. So, Impress could be used to shape subtle a snare sound, glue different tracks on instrument bus and even do complex tasks like deessing or voice over’s.

Oracle Reverb WiN MAC RETAiL

SYNTHiC4TE | August 29 2017 | 91.9 MB

AAX, VST2, VST3, AU

A great sounding reverb is arguably one of the most important factors in achieving a full and atmospheric mix, and with that in mind, the S.Spot® team set out to create a reverb that can deliver to the demands of modern production. After many months of development we are proud to announce the arrival of the Oracle Algoverb. The Oracle is a one stop shop for all your creative reverb needs, and can be used on any sound source to great effect. From adding a sense of depth to piano melodies, to making synthesised soundscapes sound huge, the Oracle has it covered.

AGM2 v2.5.1 WiN

P2P | 31 August 2017 | 3.26 GB

STANDALONE AAX VST3 VSTi RTAS

Ample Guitar II, a completely recreated program with loads of new features, including: New sample engine with significant performance improvement: *Multiple instances can be loaded much faster and takes only a small amount of additional memory. *Improved voice management significantly enhances performance.

New Strummer with drag & drop support:
*Users can search, browse and audition chords and patterns now with drag & drop support.
*Slash chord support is implemented for Detect Mode.
*Chord slots have been increased to 24 for Select Mode.
*Arpeggio can now be played on all six strings for every chord now.
*Improved humanization options are present in 2.0.
*New strummed patterns.

Announcements:
*There will be sample library extensions in future, and this update has been designed to support this feature.
*The current release of Ample Guitar II only covers acoustic series of the product line-up. More changes will be brought about by the electric series, which is coming up soon.

Important Information
Ample Guitar II cannot load presets/settings created/used with previous 1.x version software directly. However, parameters in 2.0 version software cover all parameters in 1.x versions, which means copying details of parameters from 1.x presets to 2.0 software is doable by hand. Users can keep the old version 1.x while installing version 2.0. They can run and exist in parallel.